Emma Jane (Cooley) Ives (1820 - 1906)

Born 18 Nov 1820 in Connecticut, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Gilbert Ives — married 26 Nov 1837 in Connecticut, USA

Descendants

Died 3 Mar 1906 at age 85 in Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Emma Jane Cooley was born on November 18, 1820 in Connecticut, a daughter of Earl Cooley and Rhoda Graves .^[1] She married Joseph Gilbert Ives on November 29, 1837 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut ^[2], and they had four children:

1. Rhoda Rosenah, 1839-13 Nov. 1860
2. Selina E., 1841 - 17 April 1896
3. Emma H., 1842 - 18 Oct. 1871
4. Flora Estella, 1859 - 21 May 1864

Emma died on March 3, 1906 in Middletown^[3], and she is buried in Indian Hill Cemetery there. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Cooley, Mortimer E. The Cooley Genealogy: the descendants of Ensign Benjamin Cooley, an early settler of Springfield and Longmeadow, Massachusetts, #69, page 271 states EARL COOLEY had 9 children only two of whom are known. ii. EMMA JANE, who m. Nov. 19, 1837, Joseph B. Ives of Middletown.
2. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records) (Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006), [Link]
3. ↑ Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 (Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, 2011), FHL Film Number 3345. [Link]
4. ↑ Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, digital images, Record for Emma Jane Cooley Ives. Find A Grave Memorial #14237938. Created by bluebanana. Record added Feb 17, 2015. [Link]